Sweat, who is currently being housed at Five Points Correctional Facility in Broome County, was arraigned in August on felony charges of escape and promoting prison contraband for possession
of hacksaw blades, which was passed into the cellblock in a block of frozen meat.
Not exact matches
The package contained two
hacksaw blades, a mobile phone, a mobile phone battery, a hands - free device, two packages
of cigarettes, two packs
of cigars, super glue, a 5.3 - ounce bag
of marijuana, a 0.8 ounce bag
of methamphetamine and a bag
of heroin weighing less than one gram.
Parole has been denied to prison tailor Joyce Mitchell, who was sweet - talked into providing
hacksaw blades, chisels and other tools that two killers used in a prison break that's the subject
of a Showtime miniseries being filmed in the region where it happened.
Those two agencies led the 23 - day manhunt by more than 1,100 officers for Richard Matt and David Sweat, who escaped June 6 from Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora after cutting their way through the metal wall
of their cells with
hacksaw blades smuggled to them.
A judge entered a not - guilty plea for David Sweat on two felony counts
of first - degree escape and a felony count
of promoting prison contraband for possessing
hacksaw blades.
It's a short length
of blade not unlike the
blade in a standard
hacksaw, but dulled slightly.